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Oh man, that’s awesome…. Thanks for looking!
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Hi, I need one brass door adjustment bolt that you loosen or tighten at the back bottom of a GM convertible door 46, 47, 48.
I think they are convertible only, and the attach to a rod that travels 45 degrees to the top of the door by the top door hinge connection. I have the rod, I just need the bolt that screws onto it.
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On 3/26/2022 at 3:04 PM, avgwarhawk said:
I live 2 hours from Hershey. I drive my registered Buick to the show. First time for me last year. Well organized. Everyone helpful in getting me to the area I needed to be. PS, York Pennsylvania is not far. Plenty of hotels to book.
Hey, I appreciate the intel my brother!
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The part I am worried about is how to stash bumpers in my overhead compartment on the plan ride home 😂😂😂😂😂
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37 minutes ago, rocketraider said:
Depends on the state. As Ply33 pointed out, many are imposing EV surcharges on licensing and registration to make up for the loss of gasoline tax revenue.
Man, so many webs accumulate the deeper you go in this topic
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45 minutes ago, ply33 said:
Utility costs seem to go up more than other things so who knows what the future will bring.
The cost of gasoline and electricity vary a lot based on location. EVs vary in efficiency just as internal combustion cars vary on MPG.
Assuming an EV with average efficiency, in my area with my local cost of gas and electricity a conventional car would need to get about 150 MPG to have the same $/mi fuel cost.
Your mileage will vary. A lot. Look up your cost $/kWh and your local $/gal and do your own estimate. Unless you live close to me you will come up with a different result. Don’t forget to add in the additional EV registration fee many states are adding in to compensate for loss of gas tax on EVs.
Is an electric car registration different than a gas cars???
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14 hours ago, Daves1940Buick56S said:
Just one addition. Charging a car inductively in a parking spot will be incredibly lossy unless there was some way to lower the pickup coil to ground level, and even then a lot more lossy than just plugging in. If we are trying to reduce carbon footprint it's not a good idea. How much more difficult is it to use the plug anyway? Edit: to be clear lossy means inefficient, in other words wasted energy. I lapse into engineering speak sometimes, sorry!
I have solar panels which helps cost but I do run over sometimes and have a true up bill so I pay a good amount for my electricity and with the outrageous inflation in the US the cost of power is rising daily. I’d be interested to really know if I’m saving money not buying gas, or just evenly switching who I’m paying between gas and power or am I paying more with my electric car due to price of power always going up.
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On 3/2/2022 at 11:46 PM, nick8086 said:
Things change over time with who is driving the bus..
FYI
As a symbol of his faith in “the power of the sun,” Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House West Wing roof in the summer of 1979. These panels were used to heat water in the household for seven years until President Ronald Reagan had them removed in 1986.
Or just a few years ago :
Solyndra Scandal
Key coverage of the investigation into Solyndra, the Silicon Valley startup that collapsed, leaving taxpayers liable for $535 million in federal guarantees .
Since the failure of solar-panel company Solyndra, President O $80 billion clean-technology program has begun to look like a political liability.
He was a big car collector.
Some day I hope the young kids figure this out.. A cure for everything....
I saw pictures of the garbage bins Regan had them throw all the solar panels and stuff away in… like get this poop outta here hahaha
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9 hours ago, cudaman said:
The Country Inn & Suites by Raddison at Union Deposit Road east of Harrisburg still had many rooms available when I made my reservations last week. I stay there every year, it is very nice.
If this is your first visit to Hershey, here are some suggestions: Take a lightweight, folding grocery cart to hold your part finds as you continue to walk around. Put a light bag or cardboard box in the bottom of the cart so that small parts don't fall through the wire grid onto the ground. I put a small folding chair and some full water bottles in my cart so that I can stop anywhere on the grounds to rest and have a drink of water. Go to the AACA site, download and print the site maps so that you can find your way around. Plan on spending three full days to see everything without getting exhausted.
Ok this is what I needed, I didn’t even know AACA had a map. 👍🏽
From watching videos and talking to people who’ve gone before, I hear it is a challenge to get through the whole place because of the size. Thanks for the tip on cart water and chair. Sounds like I need to pace myself.
My buddy says there won’t be as many opportunities because Europeans and Canadians can’t travel still so tons of good parts aren’t coming again this year. You think this is true? I’d assume people in the states still have tons of stuff I can pick through right?
We need to get back to life and get together to enjoy each others company again. I’m so over this lockdown stuff.
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9 hours ago, alsancle said:
There’s so many hotels now you won’t have trouble getting one. I would book one in Harrisburg, which is a 25 minute ride.
I can definitely do a half hour drive… no problem. Thanks for the tip
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Hi all, I am trying to weasel my way to the Hershey show this year for the first time, and I have been told if I don't have reservations already in place by now, I'm pretty screwed. Is this true?
Any advice you can give me as a first timer? Am I really going to have to get a hotel 2 hours away because I'm late?
Thanks,
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1 hour ago, Matt Harwood said:
The batteries are full of such valuable stuff that they are almost always recycled. Nobody's tossing them in a ditch when the car's life cycle is over. I'm not even a little concerned that I'm sitting on some kind of bomb when driving our electric car. If you're not worried about the gas tank exploding then you shouldn't worry about batteries exploding. It happens, but it's rare. Again, don't live your life afraid of a statistical anomaly.
The carbon footprint of an electrical car's manufacture is probably comparable to gasoline vehicles and yes, electric cars simply move the pollution to another site. However, electric cars are more efficient at turning power into motion, meaning that for every gram of pollution emitted to generate power, the electric car goes farther than a comparable gasoline car. They are cleaner from that perspective.
I don't think anyone is claiming that the electric cars and alternative sources of energy are the solution to all the problems. Nobody is saying that except people suggesting that the people they don't like are saying it. But if it can help, why not give it a try? It's like being against color TVs when they first came out--nobody ever said you can't keep and use your black and white TV, but having alternatives that might be better isn't a bad thing, right?
If it's right for you, buy an electric car. I have one and it's quite impressive. I still prefer driving my internal combustion vehicles, but I don't understand why so many people say I have to hate one to enjoy the other (or at least understand its practical benefits). Can't they both have their place? Not everyone has the joie de vivre we have for the automobile. In fact, most folks just don't care. For them, electric or gas makes no difference. Just get me from point A to point B. Toyota has become the largest automaker on the planet catering to these people.
Everyone seems to suggest that if the new technology doesn't solve 100% of the problem then why bother at all? Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Solutions will come in time and it will be something we haven't imagined yet. Small steps can eventually solve big problems. Just look at restoring a car--a lot of little jobs eventually add up to a shiny finished car.
Great points too... I'm not against progress, just stuck in my old ways on some things, as men usually are especially as we get older. Dont care as much for the "damn whipersnappers" hahaha
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15 hours ago, NTX5467 said:
We had a Cadillac operative who had a new CT6 hybrid with the 2.0 turbo motor. He lived right at 50 miles from work. Plugged the car into the slow charger at work and probably at home too. He said one day that he had not bought gas in the past year. Which make me wonder about the "shelf life" of gasoline in such enclosed environments?
I kind of suspect that many of the doubts many have about the changeover to EVs from internal combustion engines might be similar to conversations about the change in forms of "horsepower" over a century ago.
It seems that the concerns about battery life have been well-determined with the Prius, over its life. There is a younger guy, locally, who will come to your location and change out the Prius battery with a Toyota factory battery. Our former Toyota store sells him the batteries and then he returns with the old core battery for exchange. Apparently he has a good business doing this as that is his "day job", for which he drives his Prius.
The current battery packs might be considered "crude" when the versions of the solid-state battery come into use. Google that and see what you think. It's much farther along than many might suspect, with OEM support/investment, too.
At one point in time, several years ago, there were some considerations about having electric vehicles make some sort of artificial noise so that pedestrians would know they were around. NOT considering that many new vehicles make very little noise, anyway.
At this point in time, I suspect that EVs will be more suited for Europe than the West-of-the-Mississippi USA regions, fwiw.
It will be interesting to see how new vehicle dealers ease into supporting the new EVs. GM is supposed to have some in the $30K price range, as the $200K future Cadillacs get attention, too. PLUS how the resale value evolves, which will affect lease rates. In some respects, it might be better to lease rather than "buy", all things considered in the short term?
Humongous amount of YouTube videos on the new Ford Maverick hybrid and EcoBoost. For something with such tight supplies, Ford must have had a huge press fleet of these vehicles, it seems.
Enjoy!
NTX5467
All your points plus this: What is the cost to recycle gigantic batteries and how soon before people toss them into ditches like couches or old stoves because they don't want to pay to get rid of them responsibly?
I just watched a documentary on wind power and was stunned that environmentalist push these windmills, then they only last a certain amount of years and the expense to demo and recycle these massive blades, if they even get recycled and not sit in a giant yard and accumulate is a lot... what carbon foot print are the gas powered lifts used to get up to those things having?
What's the carbon footprint at the factory to make these things? The trucks to deliver them?
And to top it all off, these windmills are absolute meat grinders for birds lmaooo. The floor around the mills are littered with dead birds that try to fly through the blades. I'm told I can't have a steak because it's cruel to cows, but mass murder of birds is ok for the sake of the environment.
The other thing I worry about is they will find a way to make a battery last a long time so people can go further in electric cars, but how dangerous will the battery be? Cell phones and Ipads blow up now occasionally. I'm not loving the though of an electrical bomb right under my butt.
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2 hours ago, avgwarhawk said:
Made my day hahahahaha
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46 minutes ago, NTX5467 said:
I suspect that the 2030 date applies only to NEW vehicle sales, not all vehicles or used vehicles.
It does, but I still think it will be pushed back. Long distance driving needs will mean at least hybrid cars…
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11 minutes ago, NTX5467 said:
I read a statement from Ford Motor Company which stated that they will be making gasoline-fueled vehicles for a good while longer . . . as they rush into production with their electric pickups and Mustangs Mach-Es, and hybrid base model Mavericks. To me, the best alternative vehicle will be the hybrid models, which will operate on both gasoline and electricity, for a good many years.
It will take many years to get the charigng station infrastructure expanded to where it needs to be to support a fleet of majority electric vehicles. Much less the supplying electrical grid (a touchy subject in TX at the time!).
One company is heading toward inductive charging for vehicles. Just park your vehicle in the appointed space and it charges for up to 30 minutes. For both passenger vehicles and over-the-road trucks, they noted. No mention of their method of billing, though!
Another company is doing portable charging stations. Looks like s small suitcase with a handle and wheels. Put it in the car for a reserve charge, if needed.
ONE HUGE item related to the acceptance of full electric vehicles is what the owner will be charged to compensate for the loss of gasoline taxes to pay for roadways and repairs thereof! Vehicle registration fees are already getting far too close to $100.00 here in TX, so just consider what it would be when you figure in the loss of gasoline tax revenue into that mix, too. Rather than $100.0/yr/vehicle, multiply that by a factor of about "10+", even if EVs are supposed to be less expensive to operate/charge than buying gasoline to cover the same number of miles.
LOTS of side issues, it seems. And to date, I've not seen a supercomputer analysis comparing a '22 Chevy Suburban to a similar EV.
Just some considerations,
NTX5467
The battery suitcase reminds me of the first publicly available cell phones that were suitcases you had to lug around! I always want to travel light and be nimble, I’m not carrying a power reserve for my car…
I miss Texas, I used to live in Humble with my pops, though I don’t miss duct taping the bottoms of my jeans when I mowed the lawn because the red ants would chew on me 😂
I’m so curious to see how the “no gasoline motor sales in CA after 2030“ is going to go. My bet with my car buddies is that will get revoked or pushed years out.
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40 minutes ago, rocketraider said:
To expand on Matt's observations, there was a time when gasoline was considered an unusable refinery byproduct. It still had to be disposed of, either by flaring it off or pouring it on the ground.
Enter the internal combustion engine, for which gasoline just happened to be an ideal fuel. It could be used for a practical purpose instead of having to dispose of it any way you could!
Plus there are still a lot of gasoline-fueled small aircraft, as well as jet fueled passenger aircraft. Even the US government or the State of California is not foolish enough to believe aircraft can be all-electric powered.
Mmph. Can you imagine the screeching if there's all this gasoline being cracked off crude oil and it has to be disposed of because there's nothing to use it up? But, as is typical, the religion of anti-fossil has not thought that far ahead.
Didn’t think of non car uses.. that’s true. It’s not like I’m opposed to doing things smarter, more efficient, etc. I want clean drinking water as much as the next guy. I just don’t understand the complete demonizing of the things that helped us lead the industrialized world when the better alternative hasn’t been perfected yet.
for instance, plastic straws… in CA we are getting rid of them to keep them out of sea turtles nostrils, which great. But now I have a PAPER STRAW that disintegrates after my first few sips of my drink lmao.
the push for better works sometimes though, I remember riding in the back of my dads el Camino in the 1980’s (yes the metal truck bed with no seat belt) 😂 and getting gassed out from the unburnt fuel from his tailpipe. I’ve grown to appreciate catalytic converters.
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31 minutes ago, nick8086 said:
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What exactly is that???
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1 hour ago, Matt Harwood said:
You're right in thinking it will be at least your kids' lifetime before electric cars are dominant. There's a very long road between here and there, technological problems to be solved, and--not the least of their problems--a massive infrastructure in place to service gasoline vehicles. Do you really think the richest, most powerful corporations in the world (the oil companies) are just going to quietly go away? No, gasoline will be available indefinitely. There may be fewer stations, but the number will never be zero. On the upside, as demand drops so will gas prices.
It will be virtually impossible for the government to legislate gasoline cars out of existence, regardless of what the fear mongering TV tells you. The oil companies, gas station owners, investment in pipelines, delivery, service, emissions testing, etc. is just too massive to vanish and there are too many jobs attached. What politician will float the idea that millions of jobs and billions of dollars of wealth should be wiped out with the stroke of a pen? Again, regardless of what you believe about the "bad guys" in government, none of them have the wherewithal or the will to do this. And this is ignoring the fact that a lot of people won't be able to afford an electric car--nobody will want to legislate poor people out of the only transportation they have.
Places electric vehicles will become dominant? Trucking. Mass transit. Delivery fleets. Taxis/Ubers. But personal transport will likely remain a personal choice for many, many years to come. There's simply no way around it.
So take comfort in the fact that there are truly massive barriers between today and all-electric roadways. There will be more electric cars all the time, but someone will continue to build gas cars and someone will always sell gas to power them. I'm confident we'll always be able to feed our old cars and find roads on which to drive them. Don't live scared, embrace the moment!
You make me feel better about things for sure, love the points you make. Just getting scared because our EPA making it tougher to get parts already, but stupid kids rolling coal in diesel trucks and putting it on YouTube isn’t helping our case.
You make me remember money trumps everything! Haha, great points man
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Just musing on the drive home as I daydream about my old Buick being complete and I can drive it around, and I had a thought. Not that this will happen tomorrow but towards the end of my life and definitely within my kids life, the world will move away from gas cars.
Part of the anxiousness to complete this old beast is the thought of leaving things for my kids so they can be tickled by driving an antique car around the roads filled with eye numbing same same cars.
It led me to think, are these going to end up sitting in garages or show rooms someday and we won’t be able to drive them because we can’t get gas anymore, or worse yet, not be able to drive them on the streets anymore because they are not automated?
Id like to think the powers that be would always make room for us car guys, but I live in California and from what I’m seeing in my own backyard, they don’t care one bit if my grandkids can drive my old Buick to prom or not.
interested to hear opinions on where we are going with this issue.
Im also open to investing in an oil well with someone who knows how to refine it in their garage so we can keep these old things going! 😂😂
Hope everyone is having a great day!
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Right on, I’ll continue to make my own as usual lol. On the one hand I’m grateful these cars are such thick metal or my car would have rusted away years ago, but damn this thick Sheetmetal is making me work on the compound curved panels.
I appreciate your input guys. 👍🏽
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I have a question that I'm hoping someone here knows a little about so I'm throwing it out there.
I am able to find some re-pop Sheetmetal for my '47 Buick 56C but what I can find and not find seems really random. For instance, the rocker panels. I bought perfect outer rocker panels but they don't sell inners (from what I can tell), but for the 4-doors of my year, they do sell inner. Is there a reason for that? Seems strange. Are the inner the same for the 2 and 4 doors?
And why can I basically build a new 1947 Chevy coupe from re-pop Sheetmetal that's available all over the place (I'm exaggerating a bit) but I'm forced to grind away on my English wheel for things I need for my Buick?
Anyone know of a place I can find hard to get Sheetmetal for my car?
As always, I appreciate you guys. Thanks.
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Hi, if anyone is looking for a perfect condition trunk lid I just saw this on EBay for $500 and it’s here in California.
It has 23 hours left on action as of 2pm on 2/12/22…
just throwing it out there for someone who might be looking.
Thanks all
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On 12/1/2019 at 8:24 PM, jw1955buick said:
‘FREE 55 Buick body parts and bumpers
A perfectly straight hood with surface rust for super/RM
two doors for a special two door post model 48, drivers is very straight, passenger has large dent across the middle
front and rear bumpers for spec/century with extra bullets plus a grill and two grill center cross bars
all stuff is salvage yard quality, rust, dents all that
also a glove box door for same models
I’m in Tulsa Oklahoma, will not box up, pick up or make all arrangements
I wish I had a completed 55 Buick in my driveway! Haha, what good looking cars from that era 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Looking For Brass Door Adjustment Bolt 47 Buick Conv
in Buick - Buy/Sell
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Update, AACA member hooked me up, I got what I needed. Thank you.!